BBC Dimensions: How Big Really?

Find out how much of the area where you live the Pakistan floods of 2010 would have covered. Put in your zip code and you can overlay all sorts of events, even back into the ancient worlds, onto a map of where you live. This is a fascinating use of geography that brings into focus in an unusual way many important places, events, and even festivals, making them relevant in the realm of familiar dimensions. See how much area the Great Pyramids would have covered in your home town or plot the flight range of a WW II Spitfire.

BBC The BBC provides a full-featured site for learning about the music of India. Easy-to-read spotlights on instruments and musicians communicate the essential qualities of Indian music. The accompanying audio files and additional information about the country and its religion and food round out the site.

BBC Skillswise: Words Great Britain's normally staid BBC has created a delightful site featuring a series of colorful, targeted language arts lessons in sticky areas such as using apostrophes, avoiding double negatives, joining sentences, etc. The site is charming, but be wary of occasional

BBC Motion Gallery: Concepts What does "Disappointment" look like? How about "Punctual"? Or "Bizarre"? These are just three of several hundred concepts, from "Accurate" to "Zest", available as video clips on this excellent BBC site. Clicking on a concept brings up a series of thumbnail clips

BBC Motion Gallery: CBS News Do your project-making students needs a video clip of the Challenger explosion, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Vietnam war protestors, or just about any significant event of the past 50 years? They can find all of this and much much more at this wonderful repository of